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the wing. One long cilia at the base of the 3rd nervure ; posterior 

 transverse distant from the cubitus. 



FIG. 8. ?. 

 OXYMEDORIA PALPATA, 11. sp. 



Head white ; frontal baud black, narrow, width of vertex equal to 

 -| of that of the eye ; antennae black, a little ferruginous at base ; 

 palps and proboscis brown. Thorax with a whitish indumentum, thick 

 on the shoulders and the pleurae, slight on the thorax, where are seen 

 2 black bands in front of the suture and uniting behind. Scutellum 

 and abdomen black, the latter with a white anterior band on segments 

 2 and 3, but interrupted in the centre ; segments 1 and 2 reddish on 

 the venter and the sides. Wings slightly whitish, and more deeply so 

 along the anterior border. Squamae whitish ; halteres wholly yellow. 

 Legs brownish black. 



One , North Nigeria, Oshogbe (Dr. T. F. Gr. Mayer), Entom. Ees. 

 Comm. 



GEN. OCYPTEEA Latr. 



OCYPTERA PLAVIBASIS, 11. Sp. 



Antennae short, hardly projecting beyond the middle of the epistome ; 

 wings wholly fuliginose, yellowish at the base only ; abdomen light 

 testaceous yellow, black at the base, on the hind third of the pen- 

 ultimate segment, and on the whole of the last, which has a pruiuose 

 whitish border. On segment 2 the median marginal pair of setae is 



